| 6167410 |
Document processing apparatus for adding predetermined design types to an original document |
| Dec-26-2000 |
In a document processing apparatus equipped with a computer program storage medium, a preselected decoration is made on document data. A CPU analyzes document structures of the overall document in unit... |
| 6167368 |
Method and system for indentifying significant topics of a document |
| Dec-26-2000 |
A "domain-general" method for representing the "sense" of a document includes the steps of extracting a list of simplex noun phrases representing candidate significant topics in the document, clustering... |
| 6163785 |
Integrated authoring and translation system |
| Dec-19-2000 |
The present invention is a system of integrated, computer-based processes for monolingual information development. and multilingual translation. An interactive text editor enforces lexical and grammatical... |
| 6161115 |
Media editing system with improved effect management |
| Dec-12-2000 |
A media editing system that includes storage for a machine-readable composition made up of scenes separated by transitions. The system can identify to an effect generator a scene in the composition and... |
| 6154757 |
Electronic text reading environment enhancement method and apparatus |
| Nov-28-2000 |
An apparatus, method and article of manufacture of the present invention provide an enhanced user interface for a computer system that maximizes a reader's ability to rapidly comprehend a text. The invention... |
| 6154756 |
Computer system integrating different data types into a single environment |
| Nov-28-2000 |
A system for viewing and manipulating information of various data types within a single document in an integrated computer system environment is disclosed. Each data type is maintained within a dataset.... |
| 6148312 |
Method and system for electronic article maintenance and deletion |
| Nov-14-2000 |
A system and method for automated electronic document maintenance/deletion of articles in an electronic document system. In one embodiment, the present invention determines whether the contents of an electronic... |
| 6133899 |
Printing device for displaying a title of a stored text |
| Oct-17-2000 |
An electronic apparatus includes storage units capable of storing a plurality of texts and a plurality of titles corresponding to each text. A display indicates whether a text has been stored in the storage... |
| 6131088 |
Electronic catalog system and method |
| Oct-10-2000 |
Methods for accessing product information data and detecting pirated copies of a serialized software program include transmitting a data request query related to a selected product from a remote computer... |
| 6115509 |
High volume document image archive system and method |
| Sep-5-2000 |
High speed machine scanning of documents such as checks produces digital check images that are placed in archival storage on mass storage devices for later retrieval. Images and/or documents are automatically... |
| 6112192 |
Method for providing individually customized content in a network |
| Aug-29-2000 |
A method of customizing and modifying program material to tailor it to a receiving end user or client. When program material is to be generated for future customization or modification, an encrypted license... |
| 6111575 |
Graphical undo/redo manager and method |
| Aug-29-2000 |
A graphical undo/redo manager provides a graphical indication of multiple tasks that were recently performed. A user may undo multiple tasks in one step by selecting a task the user wishes to revert to,... |
| 6108668 |
Method and system for undoing edits within selected portion of electronic documents |
| Aug-22-2000 |
Provided is a method and system, to be utilized with an editing system having electronic document editing capabilities, which provides an ability to selectively undo previous edits performed upon a selected... |
| 6108445 |
Character input device using previously entered input and displayed character data |
| Aug-22-2000 |
An input device including a display unit for displaying thereon characters entered from a keyboard or by a pen inputting operation, a character selector including a tablet for selecting any character from... |
| 6105046 |
Method and apparatus for identifying, predicting, and reporting object relationships |
| Aug-15-2000 |
A method and apparatus for identifying, predicting and reporting relationships. The present invention uses a quad structure to describe relationships between dramatic units. Story elements, characters... |
| 6104990 |
Language independent phrase extraction |
| Aug-15-2000 |
A method of extracting significant phrases from one or more documents stored in a computer-readable medium. A sequence of words is read from the one or more documents and a score is determined for each... |
| 6101514 |
Anti-aliasing apparatus and method with automatic snap fit of horizontal and vertical edges to target grid |
| Aug-8-2000 |
The invention provides a method and apparatus for creating anti-aliasing effects in slanted or curved edge portions of a bit-mapped image while avoiding such effects at horizontal and vertical edge portions.... |
| 6099319 |
Neuroimaging as a marketing tool |
| Aug-8-2000 |
Neuroimaging as a means for validating whether a stimulus such as advertisement, communication, or product evokes a certain mental response such as emotion, preference, or memory, or to predict the consequences... |
| 6098034 |
Method for standardizing phrasing in a document |
| Aug-1-2000 |
A method for standardizing phrases in a document includes the steps of identifying phrases of a document to create a preliminary list of standard phrases; filtering the preliminary list of standard phrases... |
| 6094648 |
User interface for document retrieval |
| Jul-25-2000 |
A user interface for a full-text document retrieval computerized system comprises a display with a words window in which each query word is displayed by means of a distinctive representation uniquely associated... |
| 6092092 |
Gap-based style-run array mechanism |
| Jul-18-2000 |
Character style information is stored in an array, in parallel with character information stored within another data structure. The style information array has more memory allocated to it than would be... |
| 6092091 |
Device and method for filtering information, device and method for monitoring updated document information and information storage medium used in same devices |
| Jul-18-2000 |
The present invention is a device and method for filtering information, the device comprising a document database storing document data to be filtered, a reproduced document information storing unit storing... |
| 6092090 |
Management system for documents stored electronically |
| Jul-18-2000 |
A system for managing large quantities of business related documents stored electronically requires little or no reliance on the corresponding hardcopy versions. The management system data includes a processing... |
| 6085205 |
Calendar incorporating document retrieval interface |
| Jul-4-2000 |
A calendar-based user interface for electronically stored documents is provided by virtue of the present invention. Each document has an associated time. A calendar view is constructed including an icon... |
| 6073161 |
Method and apparatus for determining editing conflicts in a multi-authoring system |
| Jun-6-2000 |
Disclosed is a system for resolving multi-authoring conflicts that result when multiple users at client computers on a network computer system read and write to the same network file comprised of a plurality... |
| 6055552 |
Data recording apparatus featuring spatial coordinate data merged with sequentially significant command data |
| Apr-25-2000 |
This disclosure provides a data recording system and, in particular, an electronic digitizing clipboard and a remote computer. A stylus of the clipboard is used to write on pages, with a digitizer underneath... |
| 6055551 |
Computer system and method for process safety management hazard reviews |
| Apr-25-2000 |
A computer network for gathering information and reaching consensus in a multi-user collaborative environment for Process Safety Management (PSM). Comments and ideas are gathered simultaneously from team... |
| 6049390 |
Compressed merging of raster images for high speed digital printing |
| Apr-11-2000 |
This invention relates to high speed digital printing of pages each obtained by merging one or more page elements. A method is disclosed for merging page elements which are stored in a compressed format,... |
| 6047297 |
Method and system for editing actual work records |
| Apr-4-2000 |
A method and system for editing actual work records with a start date, an end date and a work value. A period actual is entered, including a period actual start date, period actual end date, and a period... |
| 6047046 |
Method and apparatus for automating the management of a database |
| Apr-4-2000 |
A method and apparatus to automate the process of updating and maintaining a dynamically changing database by assigning status states to each entry within the database and operating on those entries in... |
| 6043819 |
Image based document processing and information management system and apparatus |
| Mar-28-2000 |
The present invention comprises an image based document processing and information management system and apparatus. It provides a more efficient method and apparatus for handling large volumes of form... |
| 6029171 |
Method and apparatus for group action processing between users of a collaboration system |
| Feb-22-2000 |
A natural language-based information organization and collaboration tool for a computer system is disclosed. The present invention includes an apparatus and method for processing text expressions in a... |
| 6026363 |
Medical history documentation system and method |
| Feb-15-2000 |
A medical history documentation system and method for recording information relating to at least one of a designated patient's current medical condition, a physical examination, a diagnosis and a treatment... |
| 6023716 |
Partial-display printing, secure communication and multiple-copying functions in image processing apparatus |
| Feb-8-2000 |
There is provided an image processing apparatus having communicating and recording functions. This apparatus comprises: a communication control unit to communicate an image; a memory to store image information... |
| 6016467 |
Method and apparatus for program development using a grammar-sensitive editor |
| Jan-18-2000 |
Techniques used in program development using a grammar sensitive editor are described. Input within an edit buffer is processed by a lexical and syntax analyzer in response to various syntactic and lexical... |
| 6014681 |
Method for saving a document using a background save thread |
| Jan-11-2000 |
Saving a document using a background save thread while editing continues in a foreground thread. When a save is initiated, control is transferred to the background save thread and a document descriptor... |
| 6006206 |
Data health monitor for financial information communications networks |
| Dec-21-1999 |
A financial communications network incorporating a data health monitor includes a plurality of data sources, a plurality of data collection system, a client site terminal and a network connecting these... |
| 6005547 |
Calibration of an interactive desktop system |
| Dec-21-1999 |
An interactive desktop system comprising a work surface, a display device such as a projector for displaying images in a first area on the work surface, a camera for capturing images in a second area on... |
| 6002998 |
Fast, efficient hardware mechanism for natural language determination |
| Dec-14-1999 |
A language in which a document is written is identified by comparing the words of a document to the most frequently used words in a plurality of candidate languages. The words are stored in a plurality... |
| 5999896 |
Method and system for identifying and resolving commonly confused words in a natural language parser |
| Dec-7-1999 |
A method and system for identifying and resolving commonly confused words in a natural language parser is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a computer system parses input text made up of two or more... |
| 5992737 |
Information search method and apparatus, and medium for storing information searching program |
| Nov-30-1999 |
A system and method for searching a large volume of data stored in a disk in, for example, document file format at a high speed while allowing desired ambiguity. The present invention provides a character... |
| 5991770 |
Method for automatically generating Internet ready GIFs from selected data files |
| Nov-23-1999 |
A method and system are provided for automatically generating Internet formatted data files from nonInternet formatted data files. The present invention includes processing one or more directories selected... |
| 5991714 |
Method of identifying data type and locating in a file |
| Nov-23-1999 |
A method of identifying the types of data contained in an electronic file of unknown data type by gathering exemplary files of each data type of interest; counting the number of unique n-grams within each... |
| 5978828 |
URL bookmark update notification of page content or location changes |
| Nov-2-1999 |
The present invention is an apparatus and method of providing notification of a content change of a web page. The method includes the steps of transmitting a request from a first electronic system to a... |
| 5978812 |
Information processor and method of information processing |
| Nov-2-1999 |
An information processor and a method of information processing enables a write once type disc to be used as a rewritable recording medium. There can be realized an address control mechanism wherein even... |
| 5978801 |
Character and/or character-string retrieving method and storage medium for use for this method |
| Nov-2-1999 |
A character and/or character-string retrieving method with retrieves a plurality of patterns at a time by using a single deterministic finite automaton prepared from a plurality of different patterns.... |
| 5966718 |
Document processing system with enable feature |
| Oct-12-1999 |
In a document processing system which performs document processing such as edit and display for document data, a plurality of preset document roles are stored in role definition section, a plurality of... |
| 5960383 |
Extraction of key sections from texts using automatic indexing techniques |
| Sep-28-1999 |
A document condensation method and apparatus produce a document synopsis are provided in which automatic indexing techniques are used to analyze an input document to determine a list of words and phrases... |
| 5960114 |
Process for identifying and capturing text |
| Sep-28-1999 |
A process for identifying and capturing text comprising the steps of identifying delimiters in the text, selecting delimiters from the identified delimiters to be delimiters to the left and right of the... |
| 5960080 |
Method for transforming message containing sensitive information |
| Sep-28-1999 |
A method for transforming an original message into a final message by including an untrusted service, includes the steps of identifying at least one sensitive term from the original message; replacing... |
